In 1971, a group of Vietnam War protestors broke into an F.B.I. field office in Media, Pennsylvania and stole hundreds of government documents, in a heist that shocked a nation. They then send the documents that contained details of the FBI doing covert (hidden) illegal surveillance on political groups in the USA, including the BPP, and sent copies to various news papers The Washington Post then shared some of them in a front page ad, exposing their illegal activities. THIS YOUTUBE VIDEO ABOVE IS TITLED, Stealing J. Edgar Hoover’s Secrets BY Retro Report.

Thanks to these brave men and women who exposed the documents that showed how the government under FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, had been using an illegal COUNTER INTELLIENCE PROGRAM called COINTEL-PRO.